R. Kelly*, J. Clare, Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia *corresponding author: han-k.91@hotmail.com Opportunity theories of crime suggest that crime occurs in specific spatio-temporal patterns due to an increase in opportunity and a decrease in risk. Financially-motivated crimes have been...
- August 12, 2016
Helen Williamson*, School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton *corresponding author: h.williamson2@brighton.ac.uk The decade between 2004 and 2014 witnessed the number of recorded firearm offences in England and Wales fall significantly from 24,094 offences in the year ending March...
- August 12, 2016
Rick Sarre University of South Australia Corresponding author: rick.sarre@unisa.edu.au In 2015 in a Sydney, New South Wales court, an offender turned violent, knocking out a prosecutor and having to be restrained by seven police officers. It took five minutes...
- August 1, 2016
Peter Squires1, Rick Sarre2 1 Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton, p.a.squires@brighton.ac.uk 2 Rick.Sarre@unisa.edu.au It is 20 years now since the awful shooting tragedies of Dunblane and Port Arthur changed the politics of global gun control – arguably forever. Yet...
- July 20, 2016